4 DAYS IN

"Fuck! Fuck! This is so fucked!" Devyn voice cracks as she yells to herself, barely making a turn past a crashed car. Fizz, sitting in the passenger seat, holds onto the seat for dear life. "Devyn, you're gonna kill us faster with this reckless driving!"

Karl voices his agreement in the backseat, while Anthony, Devyn's boyfriend, shakes his head. "We need to keep moving! The sooner we get out of town, the better!" Fizz turns to him. "Yeah, we all saw the same shit, but how does driving like a fucking maniac help anyone?!"

Devyn screams as they hit someone in the road, causing the car to screech and slide left, causing them to crash into a building. Everyone groans and gets up. Everyone except Anthony.

"Anthony?" Karl mumbles, dizzy. He taps Anthony's shoulder. Anthony falls down across the seat, his neck horribly broken. Everyone in the car shrieks, terrified, and Fizz pushes open the door to get out and collapse to the ground.

Devyn gets out next. "No! Fucking no!" She screams, throwing open Anthony's door and pulling him out. Karl is frozen in place, shocked to the core. Fizz wheezes. "The seatbelt... There's no seatbelt on that side..."

Devyn cries out in anguish and starts sobbing over Anthony's corpse, as Karl finally comes to his senses and gets out of the car. Fizz stands up, groaning at a pain in his leg. "Fuck, okay, fuck, we need to move. That was very fucking loud and we won't be alone for much longer."

Devyn shakes and nods between her sobs. "Yeah, just... One second..." Karl comes over to Fizz. "Dude, your leg doesn't look good." Fizz grunts as he takes weight off of it. "It's just a little out of place. I'll fix it later. Hopefully..." He mumbles the last part under his breath.

They all get startled by a moan from Anthony. Devyn stares at him in surprise. "A-Anthony...?" He responds by jumping onto Devyn, to which she screams and holds him back. Fizz, startled, limps quickly over to her. "What the fuck?! What happened?!"

Devin tries to shove Anthony off but fails. "I-I don't know! He... Turned!" Fizz tenses up and looks around for a weapon. He starts panicking upon seeing nothing, and sighs. "Move him off of you!" Devyn, unable to do anything else, shoves Anthony to the side.

Fizz picks up his bad leg, and with a yell, slams it into Anthony's face. He yells in pain after the impact and pants. "...Fixed my leg, heh..." Devyn slaps him, causing him to fall to the ground. "Ow! What the fuck, Devin?!" Devin, still crying, glares at him. "This is no time for jokes! My boyfriend is DEAD, jackass!" Karl comes over and helps Fizz up. "We need to go. Now." They hear groaning coming from behind them. Fizz and Devyn both nod and they start running down the street.

1 MONTH AND FOUR DAYS IN

"So what was it like for you?"

Devyn snaps out of her trance and looks at Natalie. "Sorry, what?" Natalie shrugs. "Before the apocalypse, I mean. What was your life like. You seem pretty young." Devyn pushes herself off of the wall and sits next to her. "Well... Yeah. I was in college, studying forensic science... I was hoping to be a crime scene investigator, you know? I was doing so damn well too..." She shivers. "Not sure I picked the right career after seeing everything out here... How about you?"

Natalie stares at her before yawning and nodding. "I was going into my senior year of high school. Fucking hated the place already, I expected to fail and be stuck with a dead end job for the rest of my life. Instead I got stuck with dead people walking around, and somehow I survived." She shakes her head and rubs her headphones. "I saw the instruments inside. Anybody play?"

Devyn nods. "Fizz and Karl. They would always talk about it when we hung out, I had no idea what they were talking about." Natalie looks back at the doors, then back out to the pitch black night outside. "So what was your nightmare about?" Devyn jumps at the question. "What? I didn't-" Natalie cuts her off with a raised hand. "Yes, you did. You wouldn't be out here otherwise."

Devyn sighs and rubs the back of her neck. "My boyfriend... He died in the first few days. I crashed the car we were in and... Yeah." Natalie looks sympathetic, and throws some more twigs in the fire near them. "He didn't... Turn, did he?" Devyn puts her head in her hands and turns to the fire. "He did... Fizz had to stomp his head in to keep him from biting me."

"Holy shit... I should get him to tell me how to get that kind of force..." Devyn chuckles. "I suppose it was a good thing though. Taught us you turn no matter how you die. Bite just kills you through some infection or some bullshit like that." Natalie scoots closer to her. "You say that as if you already knew about the bite before. Bite victim?"

"My friend Michael. Came over to my house with a bite, said someone in his neighborhood was going nuts, and bit him. He turned by the end of the night, so we ran. Didn't know what to do, other then drive into town to see what was going on. Big fucking mistake..."

Natalie shrugs. "If you hadn't gone into the city, I would've died. So even if it was a bad idea, I'm glad you went anyway." Devyn smiles and nods. "We did do that, didn't we..." Natalie taps the ground for a moment before standing up. "So, what about your other friends?" Devyn stands up with her and leans against the wall. "Me and Karl have been friends for a few months. He comes over as often as he can, but he was always busy with band."

Natalie rolls her eyes. "Had a boyfriend like that once... Wouldn't ever spend time with me because he was too busy with drama club. I found out later he was cheating on me. Fucking hope he died in all this..." Devyn laughs and pats her shoulder. "Hey, we ever find him as a walker, I'll let you do the honors."

Natalie smirks and rubs her eyes. "And Fizz?"

Devyn hums. "We're friends. He went over to my house a few times, but I don't think it would've ever been just the two of us. I owe him my life though." Natalie yawns again and shakes her head. "I'm gonna head back inside... Get some rest, Hopefully. Don't stay out here too long." She gets up and heads back inside, leaving Devyn alone by the wall.

The next morning, everyone gathers near the wall to discuss the day's plans.

Alex nods and crosses his arms. "Alright everyone, we've officially lost all the freezer food. With the power gone it was only a matter of time. Since our food supply is now halved, we need to go scavenge nearby areas for food. We can start with the dollar store across the street." He points to the mentioned building. "Fizz and Karl can handle that. The rest of you will help me throw away all this spoiled food before it starts stinking up the place."

Everyone shrugs or nods and Karl and Fizz head over to the wall. "Stuck on scavenge duty with me, I can't wait for everything to go wrong." Karl sighs. "Dude, shut up. It's bad enough having to go out as it is." Fizz pushes a part of the wall aside so they can get out. "Woah, I'm just trying to lighten the mood here. It's too damn grim for my liking."

"People are out there eating each other, Fizz. I think I have an idea as to why the mood is grim." Fizz pushes the wall back into place. "Whatever man. Things have to stay light in times like these, otherwise we all end up killing ourselves." Karl waves him off and they both walk across the street.

Fizz forces the door to the store open and they both walk inside. "I don't think anyone's here, so let's just grab what we can and get out." They spilt, heading down the aisles to look for any supplies they can. Luckily for them, no one had been through the place yet.

"This place is a goldmine! Food and drinks for weeks!" Karl yells from one side of the shop. "Not only that, there's a lot here we can use as tools and weapons!" Fizz shouts back, grabbing a garden rake. "This'll keep us going for a while!" A groaning from beside him causes him to jump and drop the rake, grabbing his knife and turning to the noise.

A walker pushes its way out of the back room nearby and starts shambling at him. He runs at it, throwing his leg against the walker's leg to trip it. He stabs it in the head once it's down. "Fucking hell..." Karl runs over. "Oh, good, you're alive." Fizz pulls the knife out of its skull and cleans it off. "You sounds disappointed."

"Disappointed? Why would I be disappointed?" Fizz shrugs and puts the knife away. "I wouldn't know." Karl gives Fizz a confused look before shaking his head and walking back to the aisle he was looting before. Fizz picks the rake back up, as well as several other garden tools before nodding. "We'll have to make a few trips. I'm taking the tools back, I'll be back shortly!"

Karl shouts a confirmation back at him, and Fizz leaves the building.

Upon leaving the building and heading into the street, he looks both ways and notices something strange coming to them from the highway exit nearby. He squints his eyes and pushes his glasses closer to try and get a better look. He sees a group of walkers, heading towards him. "What the hell? That's like... Fifteen, easy..." He moves into the street to try and get a better look. "Wait... Oh, fuck. That's... That's gotta be almost a hundred of them!" He runs back to the gas station and pushes the wall in. "Alex! Get out here!"

Alex comes outside. "What? What happened?" Fizz turns back to the street. "There's a... Hoard, of them out there! Almost a hundred, minimum!" Alex's face flushes and he freezes in shock, as the others who have come outside to listen, gasp in horror. Karl comes running through the wall with two armfuls of food. "Fizz! You saw them, right?"

Fizz nods. "We all need to stay SILENT. They will pass us if we let them." Everyone nods and Fizz pulls the wall back into place. "Everyone, inside!" They all scramble through the doors and shut them, making sure to stay absolutely silent.

It takes a while, but the loud groaning of the horde becomes all they can hear soon enough. They all are pressed up against the walls, trying not to panic or freak out as they pass. After an hour of sitting in fear and silence, the groaning stops. They all take a breath.

Ashley stands up. "What the fuck was that?! Why were there so many?!" Fizz gets some water and drinks it. "They must've been attracted together by noise and kept travelling together afterwards..." She scoffs. "Well, whatever, all that matters is that it's gone now."

The window behind the counter breaks as a walker puts it's hand through it. Everyone turns to the window, where a large group of walkers are pressed up against it, pushing on it. The rest of the glass starts cracking. "That's not gonna hold!" Alex yells.

Fizz nods and runs over to their supplies, grabbing as much as he can and putting it into bags. Natalie and Devyn both run over to him and help. Karl runs over to the window and starts wacking hands with the trowel they brought back. Ashley and Katlyn both grab their backpacks and start packing stuff into them.

"Katlyn, help Karl! Keep them off of us for as long as you can!" Alex shouts, running over to deliver more bags to the rest. Katlyn nods and runs over, grabbing the hoe and slicing the hands off. Fizz stands up after a minute, his arms full. "We need to leave before they get through the wall, too!" Alex nods and turns to the two at the window. "C'mon you two! We gotta-" He's cut off as more of the glass shatters, and Karl and Katlyn are both caught off guard by walker hands. They both get pulled against the window, which is cracking even faster now.

"Shit!" Alex swears, running over to the window. He runs to Karl first, kicking the walker hand holding him off, causing him to stumble forwards. Ashley drops her supplies and runs over to Katlyn just as the glass breaks. She manages to grab Katlyn just before she gets pulled out, but is now stuck in a struggle with the walkers. "Alex, help me!"

Alex runs over and tries to help Ashley pull Katlyn back in. "They're getting through!" Karl yells, slamming the trowel into the head of one of the walkers. Katlyn is sobbing at this point. "Don't let them take me! Please! Please!" Ashley pulls harder. "Don't worry, baby! We've got you!"

Fizz stabs the walker directly behind Katlyn, causing them to pull her forward, and Fizz runs back to the supplies, helping Natalie and Devyn grab as much as they can. Karl kicks open the door. "let's move!" They quickly get out of the building and move the wall, sprinting down the street away from the hoard behind them.

Katlyn runs beside Fizz, and turns to him. "Thank you... So much." Fizz just nods, and they continue running, away from the place they thought was safe.